Cissus. Co TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 431 
. A native of the mountains along the eastern frontier of Bengal. In 
the Botanie Garden it blossoms in February and March. 
Trunk scandent, stout, ligneous, in six year-old plants as thick as 
| a man's wrist, flattened, and grooved on the two flat sides. Bark 
dark brown, rough or deeply cracked. Branches and Branchlets 
climbing, or pendulous when not supported ; young parts round, 
green and generally smooth ; extent of the whole plant several fa- 
thoms.—Tendrils leaf-opposed, generally undivided.— Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, pedate. Leaflets generally five, lanceolar, recurvate, 
‘most remotely and sharply serr ulate, long, taper, acute-pointed, both 
sides polished; texture rather fleshy, length from three to six inches, 
and from one to two broad.— Petioles and petiolets clothed with short, 
. reddish hairs.—Stipules large, of a narrow conic shape.—Cymes 
sub-axillary, or close by the side of the base of the petioles, shorter 
than ihe petioles, or when most luxuriant much shorter than the 
leaves, the ultimate divisions each supporting a small globular umbel- 
let, of small pale yeliow flowers.— Bractes round the base of the pe- 
duncles, cordate. ` 
MaLr.—Calyr scarcely any. .— Corol and atak as in the genus. 
— Pistil none, an umbilicate, yellow, round, convex guna occupying 
its place. 
14. C. pedata, Linn. g Pl. ed. Willd. i. 6059 - 
Perennial, scandent. Tendrils simple, or two-cleft. ` Yous pe- 
- date ; leaflets broad-lanceolate, serrate. Berries four-seeded. 
. Beta-Tsjori-Vali Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 19. t. 10. 
-. C. heptaphylla, Retz. Obs. v. 22. 
G9 Gwalia. : 
This is another very extensively climbing species, as indeed they 
all are; a native of forests, hedges, &c. Flowering time the rainy 
season. 
Stems woody, climbing over trees, &c. young parts coyered with 
soft down.— Tendrils leaf-opposed, sid iple or two-cleft.— Leaves al- 
ternate, petioled, pedate. Leaflets oblong, irregularly serrate, downy, 
